No. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a euphemism is a vague
expression that is used to conceal a harsh reality. In effect, euphemisms
reduce precision of thought. The word
euphemism, however, precisely names the phenomenon, so it doesn’t conceal anything.

Some common examples of euphemism are: pass away for die and make love for copulate. My personal favorites are the American military-term pacification mission (the napalming of
peasant villages) and medicine's embryo reduction procedure (abortion).

Some examples of political euphemism are: underprivileged
(poor), working people (unionized labour), special (handicapped), and - a
golden oldie - liquidate (murder).

If
there were a scale of euphemism power, say from 1 to 10, where the higher the
number the harsher the reality being hidden , the phrase final solution
(extermination of the Jews) would probably get a 10 and pass wind (fart) would
get a 1.

The drawback of euphemism is that no matter
what you call the nasty thing, the thing (e.g. death) remains nasty and,
eventually, the euphemism becomes as offensive as the word it replaced and
a new one must be found.

This is a recurring problem in the funeral business. Formerly, those who put you under ground were called undertakers, but when that became offensive they renamed themselves morticians (a label proposed in 1895 by Embalmer's Monthly). Today, if you peruse the Yellow-pages, you won't find the word mortician; you will, instead, find funeral directors.” You will also find the phrase memorial centre, which seems to be the euphemism in embryo for funeral home.

Politicians are masters of euphemism. According to George Orwell, the reason for this is: "… political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible ... thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness." For example, when Conservatives want to cut social welfare, they speak of "fiscal restraint" and "responsible government," and when social democrats want to raise taxes they speak of "social justice."

I once worked for a member of the Canadian parliament. While doing this, I observed first hand the powerful urge to euphemize and obfuscate. Within months of taking office, I learned that every time you spoke clearly about an issue, you would offend someone and probably lose a vote. Sometimes we would get a letter from a former supporter saying just that. Note that we never got letters from non-supporters saying that they would now vote for us because of something my boss said.

Now, as the primary goal of average democratic politician is to get re-elected, my boss decided to play it safe and never again say anything that might offend anybody anywhere (even the unborn). And he became extremely good at speaking about controversial issues and saying absolutely nothing. Watching him speak was like watching someone enthusiastically drink water – but he never lost an election.

(2) Spell the term that feminists coined to remove the "man" from "woman."

(3) What large land-mass's name is a
euphemism?

(4) According to the Ontario Department of
Education, how does a sexist say "synthetic"?

Answers

(1) Lies -- During Watergate, the Nixon administration was caught telling so many
lies that it had to call a press conference to own up to them. Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler - who
was at that time to euphemism what Bobby Orr was to hockey - handled it by
bluntly informing the Press Corps that all previous administration statements
regarding the Watergate scandal were, henceforth, inoperative.

(4) Man-made -- A 1979 report commissioned by the Ontario Department of Education recommended
that "sexist" terms, such as man-made and mankind, be replaced in all
Ontario curricula by"non-sexist"; terms, such as synthetic and
humanity.